Yay Obama!

April 18, 2008 9:03 AM

while ago, I was having this conversation with a friend of mine about how I hated Hillary Clinton. My friend then accused me of not supporting her candidacy because she's a woman. That was fucking preposterous and, given my relationship with that friend, kind of hurtful because, as is now a well-established principle, I am not a sexist. I told my friend this, and then she asked me a question I couldn't answer: which of her policies do you disagree with? It's not that I agreed with all her policies, it's that I didn't know which of her ideas differentiated her from any other Democrat. Eventually, I was forced to concede that I didn't know much about Ms. Clinton's substance. But that's OK with me--I still hate her.

First of all, there's the fact that she's clearly a power-hungry, unscrupulous bitch. She's been positioning herself to run for president for more than a decade. That might be acceptable--although it still sort of rubs me the wrong way--but what I really hate is that she seems perfectly willing to do anything it takes to win, regardless of whatever her personal beliefs are and, you know, the truth. That whole thing where she was cool with Michigan and Florida's primaries not counting until she lost all the others but won those sort of demonstrates exactly what I mean. Oh, and the thing where she apparently fought snipers off with her bare hands, but not really or at all. And, while I have no specific examples to back this up, I'm fairly certain that she's changed her public stance on a bunch of issues since deciding to run for president.

In any event, she just comes off--or at the very least, I perceive her--as someone who'd do pretty much anything to get elected. And that's exactly the kind of person I don't want to elect. And it looks like the rest of America is finally getting its head out of its ass and realizing the same thing. Still, while I'm glad that Mr. Obama's maintaining at least some of his momentum through this fucktarded nomination process, there are some things in that article that sort of disturb me, not so much because of what they say about the candidates' chances but because of what they say about the American people.

First off, who are these idiots who thing that Mr. Obama's Muslim? I mean, have they been paying any attention to anything at all? And, more importantly, why the fuck do they care? It's frankly unbelievable to me that there are people who would exclude someone from consideration for president because of that person's religion. Or, as is the case here, that they'd be so grossly misinformed and then make their decision based on that.

Second, who are the people that are ranking Mr. Obama as "Not at all honest"? And where the fuck does that come from? And why the fuck are so many people hung up on what his pastor said? How can we be both upset that he's a Muslim and that his Christian pastor said incendiary stuff? Moreover, how the hell is Mr. Obama responsible for anything his fucking pastor said? Idiots.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised by the fact that my countrymen are idiots anymore. But, alas, I still am.

3 Comments

estefanita said:

though i don't hate hilary, i agree that she has a sense of entitlement about herself that rubs me the wrong way. and she gives off the feeling of "i'll do anything, gimme gimme gimme." She was willing to play politics as usual until barack gained popularity by advocating change. if barack wasn't around would hilary have my vote? maybe. but the fact is barack is here and people have to make a big deal about his pastor and him being "muslim" because they can't critique his ethics, which is where all the other politicians are vunerable. He is the only one to say "I'm not perfect" and I like that.
some of your countrymen are idiots but have faith that not all of them are as dumb as we are led to believe.

April 18, 2008 12:23 PM

New Guy said:

The lesson here, as always, is that people are stupid retards.

April 18, 2008 1:06 PM

Vice said:

You know, I'm for Obama 100%. But if he doesn't get the nod, I'm absolutely voting for Hillary in the fall. And it's completely because of her positions - I agree with the vast majority of her positions. And I'd totally prefer that she be in the White House than McCain (though, comparatively, he's clearly not the worst the GOP has to offer). But the difference for me, just like you said, is that she's so willing to play the game, to change her behavior at a moment's notice if she thinks it will appeal to a certain target demographic at a certain time.

Case in point - how she suddenly became a gun-toting bible-thumper the moment Barack made his "bitter" comments. That was fucking shameless.

Bottom line, I think she'd make a fine president, but I also think she makes a bad person.

April 19, 2008 11:56 PM

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